Sentence examples of "double défait" in French
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
Il laça la chaussure de son fils en faisant un double nœud et il dit : «Voilà, ça devrait aller comme ça.»
He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans.
Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis.
I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.
J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin.
I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.
Mais l'homme n'est pas fait pour la défaite. Un homme peut être détruit, mais pas défait.
But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère.
Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
Nous allons devoir double notre budget pour l'an prochain.
We'll have to double our budget for next year.
Ses revenus sont à présent le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans.
His income is now double what it was ten years ago.
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